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Lexington Cemetery
USINFO | 2013-05-20 11:21
Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit 170-acre (69 ha) cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky. It is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1849 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery, in part to deal with burials from the cholera epidemic in the area. It now contains more than 64,000 interments.
Its plantings include boxwood, cherries, crabapples, dogwoods, magnolias, taxus, as well as flowers such as begonias, chrysanthemums, irises, jonquils, lantanas, lilies, and tulips. Also on the grounds is an American basswood (Tilia Americana), which the cemetery claims to be the largest in the world. However, this claim is not supported by the National Register of Big Trees, which claims that the largest American Basswood is located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Within the cemetery are three places that are listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places from the main cemetery: Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington, the Ladies' Confederate Memorial, and Lexington National Cemetery.
There are about 64000 people buried in the Lexington cemetery, the cemetery buried in the eighteen sixties, thousands of Civil War soldiers and victims, in addition, fourteenth president of the United States of America vice president John Breckenridge, the greatest American senator Henry clay, astronomical museum inventor Milton Barlow, is also buried here. Since 1937, a lot of trees and flowers start to implant the cemetery, the cemetery as well as the resting place, also began as a beautiful botanical garden for people to visit.
Lexington cemetery in planting a boxwood, cherry tree, Begonia, Cornus officinalis, Magnolia, Taxus and numerous flowers, such as Begonia, chrysanthemum, iris, Narcissus, Lantana, lily, tulip.
The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1849 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery, in part to deal with burials from the cholera epidemic in the area. It now contains more than 64,000 interments.
Its plantings include boxwood, cherries, crabapples, dogwoods, magnolias, taxus, as well as flowers such as begonias, chrysanthemums, irises, jonquils, lantanas, lilies, and tulips. Also on the grounds is an American basswood (Tilia Americana), which the cemetery claims to be the largest in the world. However, this claim is not supported by the National Register of Big Trees, which claims that the largest American Basswood is located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Within the cemetery are three places that are listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places from the main cemetery: Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington, the Ladies' Confederate Memorial, and Lexington National Cemetery.
There are about 64000 people buried in the Lexington cemetery, the cemetery buried in the eighteen sixties, thousands of Civil War soldiers and victims, in addition, fourteenth president of the United States of America vice president John Breckenridge, the greatest American senator Henry clay, astronomical museum inventor Milton Barlow, is also buried here. Since 1937, a lot of trees and flowers start to implant the cemetery, the cemetery as well as the resting place, also began as a beautiful botanical garden for people to visit.
Lexington cemetery in planting a boxwood, cherry tree, Begonia, Cornus officinalis, Magnolia, Taxus and numerous flowers, such as Begonia, chrysanthemum, iris, Narcissus, Lantana, lily, tulip.
